St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

people Ill the East and South VINO are
seeking homes in the Northwest, and
they ought to induce a considerable
amount of immigration to Dakota.
Grand Forks County.
LARIAIoRE, Oak, Nov. 29.-The re-
sources of agriculture are to be esti-
mated by the amount of capital it takes
to produce crop. In order to raise Il
crop of corn, wheat, sage. oats. barley
or vegetables of any variety i'll the East
ern. New England or Middle states.
more or less capital Gt is usually more)
of necessity must be invested i'll the
manufactured fertilizers. Any farmer
in the Middle States will agree with us
when we say that in order to raise
twenty to twenty-five bushels of wheat
to the acre, SO worth of phosphates
must be scattered over that acre of
ground, or its equivalent of manureS.
In order to produce seventy-tiye to
eighty bushels of corn per acre i'll the
same states, every farmer cannot deny
that he must put twenty to twenty-five
loads of manure per acre on the land
before blowing, and that fertilizer they
know costs them in any town frCm $3.50
to 50 per ton. and they do the hauling.
When figured down they acknowledge
it is the same in producing any other
crop. The outlay of capital is necessary
in those states in order to secure rea-
sOnable crop. and the effects of disasters
incident to the elements and insects are
not considered.
The writer has paid careful attention
to the raising of grain in parts of the
Eastern states for over the space of ten
thH oil, Is a f.
ed in the cost of outlay in order to pro-
duce reasonable crop. Other eX-
penses, such as hired help, threshing
and marketing the products, are not
considered.
ANY agriculturist can estimate them
according to his own labor.
The object of this letter is to show the
contrast between the profits accruing
from farming the Eastern land COM
pared with farming the new and unde
Vel0ped lands of the great and growing
West. The writer has been connected
with raising grain i'll North Dakota for
a number OF years. Land that L have
farmed for four years has produced an
average of tWenly-SiX bushels Of wheat
per acre with no fertilizers and TO out
lay of capital except for labor and ma
chinery. Land within rifle shot of II that
wears, this year produced forty bushels
of No. l hard wheat per acre, and
twenty acres of the same turned out
over G0 bushels, machine measure.
Eighty acres of cats yielded when
threslied and weighed over 10 bushels
per acre Oats this year averages be-
tween forty and fOrty-five pounds per
bushel. When farming in the Middle
states my oats never weighed over thirty
pounds per buShel, and often not over
twenty-five pounds per buShel
Of the vegetables, cabbages grow as
large as buShel basket and potatoes as
big dis any mans foot. The soil is par
ticularly adapted to the growth of sugar
beets and they and the turnips grow to
the size OF an ordinary ''ham." A field
of corn comprising twenty acres i'll this
vicinity yielded the owner about 100
bushels to the acre.
If the manufacturers of beet and SOr-
ghum sugar in burlington county. n.
j.. would remove their establishments
to this soil they would have more sugar
beets and of better quality then they
are using now, than they would know
what to do with. Besides they could
materially lower the price of sugar in
the markets of the world as Dakota has
already lowered the price of wheat.
Her yield this year, according to Of
fetal statistics was 63,00O,000 bushels.
Now here we hope everybody will at
least have plenty of bread. The wheat
raised in Dakota stands highest i'll the
market Her railroad stocks are quoted
high and bear good dividends, her
counties are mostly out of debt and her
people are well off.
Her climate is bracing and health
giving. The writer has increased in
weight from 1G0 to 200 pounds in the
course of four years.
As recreation in summer time, there
is no end of sport i'll shooting of wild
fowls of all description. The black
winged swan. pelican, geese, brandt.
ducks of all variety abound III great
abundance.
But few days ago | observed a few
swan alight on the adjoining prairie.
Some hunters whe were stopping with
me hurried out, and, at range of 800
yards they killed one which weighed
fifty pounds.
In winter time much healthful amuse-
ment is afforded to this community by
riding in our snow boats. Any day
when the air is in motion we unfurl the
sail and give chase after stray fox,
badger or gray wolf. 1t takes one man
to arrange the sail and help, and two
others can be prepared to shoot the
game. Our greatest speed is about a
mile in two minutes, anything greater
than that makes it rather dangerous to
stay OH the craft. Last winter a party
of us were out. The man on the. watch
shouted. Before anything could be
done we bounced over large plow
frozen in the ground, and the next min
ute we brought up i'll the railroad ditch
and lost runner and upset: but such
accidents are trivial compared with the
sport. The thermometer was 500 below
zero then, but when dressed in the cloth
ing of this climate with mackenaw I'M
derwear and fur coat the cold is not
felt.
If tell you that have seen one retail
merchant whose cash receipts were over
$500 per day during the fall; if | tell
you that the steam thresher machines
turn out clean No. hard at the rate of
from 1000 to 5000 bushels per day, and
the cost of threshing is from 8 to 4
cents per bushel; if tell you that the
threshiDg machines and engines move
at the will of the engineer and go over
the field where he directs, these things
you will all doubt, not because of my
word, but because you have neither
heard nor seen such things, and the
''like was never known before"
r. n. BRUYERE.
Buford County.